COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former state employee accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl had been fired from his Ohio Department of Transportation job for surfing pornography websites.

A Highbanks Metropark ranger spotted Scott W. Spencer, 57, Friday afternoon in an area usually closed to the public, Columbus TV station ABC6 reported. The ranger followed Spencer into the woods in the Lewis Center park and found the girl, partially clothed and bound.

Spencer has been charged with two third-degree felony counts of sexual battery. He appeared in Delaware County Municipal Court on Monday and is being held on $200,000 bond. He did not enter a plea.

Prosecutors said Monday that Spencer told investigators he met the girl online and had previously abused the girl in the park, ABC6 reported.

Spencer was hired to work in the chief legal counsel office of the Ohio Department of Transportation in February 2012. While there, he was responsible for reviewing public records requests.

He was fired Nov. 27, 2012 for visiting pornographic websites on his work computer, according to his personnel file.

While at ODOT, Spencer was counseled for "unwelcome" actions toward female co-workers and was reprimanded for a voicemail message he left a female co-worker.

ODOT investigators discovered Spencer visited pornographic web sites after it was reported he was spending time at the office after hours and on weekends. Spencer told investigators he was helping his daughter with "law school stuff," according to a report from the investigation.

A search of the web history on Spencer's work computer found he accessed dozens of sexually explicit websites while at work and tried to access other sites blocked by ODOT controls, according to the report. Non-ODOT related websites included spankedprincess.com and FetLife, "the world's most popular free social network for the BDSM, fetish and kinky communities."

During the 1980s, Spencer worked for Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives as a press secretary and in the Ohio Senate as a legislative aide, according to state records.

Spencer was admitted to the bar in 1985 and later served as general counsel for the Ohio Republican Party. His law license was suspended in 1994 for falsifying documents while representing a client, and he surrendered his license in 2003 pending disciplinary action, according to Ohio Supreme Court records.

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